CURRENT EVENTS:

March 7 - 9
Graduate Student Conference
"Rebellion and Revolution"
(refer to home page under "Upcoming")

March 20, 3-6pm:
Colloquium: Rhetorik der Kultur

Jürgen Fohrmann: "Freuds Rhetorik der Kultur"
Albrecht Koschorke: "Imaginationen der Kulturgrenze. Zu Ludwig Tiecks 'Der blonde Eckbert'".
Followed by a roundtable discussion and a reception in the German Department Library

April 2:
Lecture by David Wellbery (University of Chicago)
"Precarious, Unhoped-for Happiness: Remarks on Classical German Literature"
Time: 4pm-6pm
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center

April 7:
Workshop: "Reading Emotions in Medieval Literature"
with Ingrid Kasten, Elke Koch, Jutta Eming (FU Berlin)
2pm-5pm

April 10:
Workshop: "Robert Walser"
with Walo Deuber (Film director, Switzerland)
4pm-6pm

April 11:
Walo Deuber: Film Screening "Ricordare Anna"
6pm

April 18:
"Where Europe Continues... Translingual Writers and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (with Yoko Tawada and Zafer Senocak".
Time: 4-6:30pm
Location: The Geballe Room, Townsend Center

OLD EVENTS:

September 9, 14, 21, 28 - Joseph Vogl, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor.
Joseph Vogl will be teaching German 204 in Fall 2007 by the title of:
"Kafka und die Mächte der Moderne"

Einen 'Experten für Machtfragen' hat Elias Canetti Kafka einmal genannt, und zweifellos lassen sich Kafkas Texte als Spielarten einer politischen Literatur lesen. Diese Lektüre jedenfalls soll im Seminar an ausgewählten und exemplarischen Texten versucht werden. Neben einigen geläufigen Themen der Kafka-Forschung - etwa der Frage nach der Rolle von 'Gesetz' und Urteilsmacht, nach der Disziplinierung des Körpers - geht es dabei auch um die Erschließung einer immanenten Programmatik und Theorie von Kafkas Literatur. Auf der Basis gründlicher Textkenntnis, die für das Seminar vorausgesetzt wird, sollen zentrale Problemstellungen des Themas im Seminargespräch erarbeitet werden.

Time:     Fridays, 2-5pm
Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall  

September 17 - "The 2007 Kenneth Weisinger Lecture" by Amir Eshel
"Past's futures: contemporary German literature and the quest for the past"
Time:     4pm
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center    

October - No Events/News

November 1- Lecture: Wolfgang Emmerich (University of Bremen)
"Teils-teils'. Gottfried Benns Parlando-Gedichte"
Time:     5pm
Location: 235 Dwinelle Hall  

November 16 - Lecture by Prof. Jan Nederveen Pieterse
"How European is Europe?"
Time:     3pm
Location: 201 Moses Hall

November 26 - Lecture: Ulrich Plass (Wesleyan University): \"Adorno\'s American Experience:
"What's Metaphysics Got to Do With It?"
Time:     5pm
Location: 83 Dwinelle Hall

December 7 - "Omega Minor"
Lecture by Paul Verhaeghen
Time:     10am
Location: 205 Dwinelle Hall

September 27 - Lecture:
"Schillers Utopie der aesthetischen Bildung"by Professor Wilhelm Vosskamp.
Time:     5pm-7pm
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall     

Ray Müller, director of the documentaries "Leni Riefenstahl im Sudan" (2000) and of "Die Macht der Bilder. Leni Riefenstahl" (1993) will join Tony Kaes in teaching his seminar on documentary film.

October 6 - Lecture:
"The Disgrace of Failed Memory: Günter Grass and the Hidden Past in German Studies"
by Christoph Koenig (University of Osnabrück)
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall

November 3
Poetry Party
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall

November 8-Lecture
"Style as Provocation: Goethe, Nietzsche, Brentano, Heine" by Karl Heinz Bohrer
Time: 5pm-7pm
Location: 263 Dwinelle Hall

November 30-Event
"Denoting Chaos" by Jocelyn Holland, visiting professor in the Department of German and Jan Reimann, visiting professor in the Department of Mathematics
Time: 6pm-8pm
Location: 109 Wheeler Hall

December 8 - Symposium:
Friedrich Schiller's "On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters"
Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Location: 105 Dwinelle

January 22 - Nibelungen Workshop:
Professor Jan-Dirk Müller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA

February 2 - Lecture: by Chenxi Tang
(University of Chicago)
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location: 156 Dwinelle Hall

February 6 - Lecture: by Christine Lehleiter
(Indina University)
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall

February 8 - Lecture: by Karen Feldman
(University of California, Berkeley)
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall

February 21 - Poetry Reading: by Martin R. Dean and Daniel Zahno
(Introduction by Prof. Romey Sabalius, San Jose State University
Sponsored by the Swiss Arts Council "Pro Helvetia")
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: 3401 Dwinelle Hall

March 7 - Lecture: By Michael Schuering
"Rescuing German Science: The Political Transformation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute after 1945"
Time: 12pm
Location: 201 Moses Hall

March 8 - DaF-Workshop: By Harald Zils
The German Department's Language Program presents "Heißer Sand: Exotismus in der westdeutschen Unterhaltungsmusik der 50er und 60er Jahre" Ein DaF-Workshop für Deutschlehrende Harald Zils Visiting Assistant Professor of German und DAAD Lektor Binghamton University, SUNY
Time: 6-8pm
Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall

March 16-18 - Conference:
15th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
Dialects & Dialogues
Time: Friday, March 16th & Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall (Floor G)
Website: http://german.berkeley.edu/germanconf/2007/

April 10 - This side of Eternity - Traces of Theology in Hannah Arendt's thinking: By Otto Kallscheuer
Time: 5-7pm
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall

April 12-13- Conference: Politics, Religion and Society - Shifting grounds and explosive relationships in Europe and the US:
Time: Contact: (415) 263-8760
Location: 223 Moses Hall & Faculty Club

April 20 - FILM: By Harald Friedl
"Aus der Zeit " ("Out of Time")
Time: 6-8pm
Location: 101 Moffitt

May 5 - Whose Melancholy? On the Muteness of Humans and Animals.": Alice Kuzniar(UNC Chapel Hill)
Time: 5-7pm
Location: TBA